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Like robins perched in your backyard tree or the buds of flowers emerging in your garden, the ping of an aluminum bat hitting a softball or the thud of a baseball popping into a catcher's mitt are among the first signs of spring. But those sights and sounds of spring aren't quite the same when they're taking place inside a high school gymnasium. Yet, that's what was happening all across the Lehigh Valley on Monday when practice for the spring sports season officially began. Mounds of snow covered the fields and courts where, eventually, softball, baseball and lacrosse games will take place along with boys tennis matches. And at many places, the track and field...

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